Our Certifications: Pathways for Healing-Centered Practitioners
At Juniper & Pine Consulting, LLC, we believe that the transformation of individuals, programs, and systems begins with the transformation of the practitioners within them. Our certification programs are not simply professional credentials; they are carefully structured journeys of healing, learning, and restored relationship that prepare practitioners to carry this work with cultural integrity, somatic intelligence, and deep relational accountability.
Each pathway described below is a standalone certification. They are also designed to complement and build on one another. Whether you are beginning your journey as a healing-centered facilitator, deepening your capacity as an Indigenous regulation practitioner, or preparing to carry a specific curriculum into your own Nation and community, there is a pathway here that meets you where you are.
Indigenous Facilitator Training Certificate
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Trauma-Informed Indigenous Solutions Certificate
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Compassion Fatigue: Walking the Healers Path Certificate
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Indigenous Facilitator Training Certificate ✳︎ Trauma-Informed Indigenous Solutions Certificate ✳︎ Compassion Fatigue: Walking the Healers Path Certificate ✳︎
Certification Pathways
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The Indigenous Healing-Centered Practitioner Certification recognizes practitioners who have built comprehensive capacity across the intersecting domains of Indigenous knowledge systems, trauma-responsive practice, healing-centered facilitation, and the helper’s wellbeing. This certification is designed for practitioners who are committed not simply to delivering programs, but to embodying healing-centered practice in everything they do.
Required Core Courses (all three required)
Mastering the Sacred Art of Indigenous Facilitation: Certificate I (Apprentice Facilitator)
Trauma-Informed Indigenous Solutions™ (TISI) Certificate
Compassion Fatigue: Walking the Healer's Path Certificate
Elective Courses (three required)
Participants select three elective courses from the following approved offerings. Any new Juniper & Pine Consulting, LLC program of at least five full in-person days or six months in virtual/hybrid format will be added to the elective menu as it becomes available.
Rematriation Practices for Healing from Addiction
Healing-Centered Educational Sovereignty
Amplifying Lateral Kindness
Understanding Women, Trauma and Healing
Roots of Power: Indigenous Mindful Leadership
Healing the Circle of Care
Organizational Systems Building
Our Path to Healing: A Trauma-Informed Leadership Retreat
Indigenous Women’s Healing Retreat
Total: Six courses — three required core courses and three electives.
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Awarded upon completion of all three certificates in the Mastering the Sacred Art of Indigenous Facilitation program
Mastering the Sacred Art of Indigenous Facilitation is an 18-month professional development program that prepares practitioners to facilitate with cultural integrity, somatic intelligence, and relational accountability across Tribal, organizational, and community settings. Grounded in a Two-Row Medicine approach, the program braids Indigenous wisdom traditions with the International Association of Facilitators (IAF) competency framework, polyvagal theory, neurochemical awareness, and trauma-responsive facilitation methods.
The program is structured as three sequential six-month certificate courses, each representing a distinct stage of facilitator development. Certificates may be earned individually (each stands as a meaningful credential on its own) or completed in sequence to earn the full Master Indigenous Facilitator Certification.
Certificate I: Apprentice Facilitator: The Sacred ContainerWho am I as a facilitator, and how do I hold safe space? Participants build their facilitator identity, create culturally and psychologically safe containers, and complete their first facilitated session. Graduates are prepared to co-facilitate under mentorship. This certificate also serves as a required core course toward the Indigenous Healing-Centered Regulation Practitioner Certification.
Certificate II: Advanced Facilitator: The Healing FireHow do I facilitate healing in complex, real-world contexts? Participants deepen their capacity to facilitate in contexts marked by historical trauma, lateral violence, and systemic harm. Graduates are prepared to facilitate independently across diverse Tribal, organizational, and community settings.
Certificate III: Master Facilitator: Walking Forward / The Fire KeeperHow do I grow other facilitators and transform systems? Participants develop the capacities for mentorship, curriculum design, and systems-level leadership. Graduates are qualified to train, mentor, and supervise other facilitators and to lead organizational transformation using healing-centered Indigenous approaches.
Upon completion of all three certificates, practitioners receive the Master Indigenous Facilitator Certification, signifying mastery in Indigenous healing-centered facilitation and the sacred responsibility of growing the next generation of healing-centered facilitators.
This certification also creates a streamlined pathway to the Indigenous Healing-Centered Regulation Practitioner Certification. See the Dual Certification Pathway for more information.
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Practitioners who are pursuing both the Master Indigenous Facilitator Certification and the Indigenous Healing-Centered Regulation Practitioner Certification will find a significant overlap built into both pathways. Certificate I of the facilitator program fulfills the core facilitation requirement for the Regulation Practitioner Certification, and Certificates II and III each count as electives toward it.
This means that a practitioner who completes all three facilitator certificates, then adds the TISI Certificate, the Compassion Fatigue Certificate, and just one additional elective, will earn both the Master Indigenous Facilitator Certification and the Indigenous Healing-Centered Regulation Practitioner Certification — a total of six courses across both pathways.
This dual pathway honors what we know to be true: that masterful facilitation and deep healing knowledge are not separate capacities. Practitioners who carry both are uniquely positioned to serve their communities at the level of depth this work requires.
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Awarded upon completion of the Rematriation Practices for Healing from Addiction five-day immersive certificate training and the Train-the-Trainer Day
Rematriation Practices for Healing from Addiction is a five-day immersive certificate journey that reclaims addiction recovery as a sacred, communal, and ceremonially grounded act of rematriatio; a return to land, ceremony, the sacred feminine, kinship, and the body's original instructions for healing. Rooted in a Two-Row Medicine approach that centers Indigenous women's wisdom traditions alongside western neuroscience and polyvagal theory, this program prepares practitioners to understand and support healing from addiction in ways that honor the actual roots of the wound.
For practitioners called to carry this curriculum into their own Nations and communities, the optional Train-the-Trainer Day (Day 6) provides the relational and cultural preparation needed to do so with integrity, humility, and facilitator competency. The passing of knowledge in Indigenous traditions is a sacred act, the teacher transmits relationship, responsibility, and readiness, not a recipe. The Train-the-Trainer Day honors this truth.
Practitioners who complete all five days of the certificate training plus the Train-the-Trainer Day receive the Certified Rematriation Practices Facilitator designation, along with a complete Facilitator Manual set, a Code of Ethics card, a Facilitator Competency Wheel, a Sustainability Plan, and entry into an ongoing community of practice and mentorship relationship with Juniper & Pine Consulting, LLC.
The five-day certificate training also counts as an elective toward the Indigenous Healing-Centered Regulation Practitioner Certification.
This training is available in-person only, in recognition of the depth of grief, ceremony, and relational healing the work requires.
Virtual Programs Now Open
Program Description
Ish’kē’nā Biyátí (The Medicine Lives Between Us) is the Chiricahua Apache name for this program, reflecting the foundational teaching that trauma does not live inside a single person. Trauma lives between us, in the spaces where connection has been severed. And so, healing, too, lives between us: in kinship, in story, in ceremony, in the land, and in the shared fire of collective purpose.
The Trauma-Informed Indigenous Solutions™ Certificate Program is a six-month, cohort-based learning journey designed and led exclusively by Indigenous professionals. Offered through Juniper & Pine Consulting, LLC, this program provides the only fully Indigenous-designed, culturally grounded, healing-centered certificate program we are aware of.
We will meet the first Friday of each month, from 7:00 am-2:00 pm PACIFIC STANDARD TIME starting Friday, September 4, 2026 (we will not meet on January 1) and ending February 5, 2027.
Participants will move across six consecutive months, moving together through a carefully sequenced arc that braids Indigenous science, neuroepigenetics, relational ontology, historical trauma, community-based regulation, ceremony-informed practice, and healing-centered leadership.
Where mainstream trauma training centers on pathology and individual deficit, this program centers belonging, kinship, reciprocity, cultural regulation, collective wellness, and the restoration of harmony. It positions participants to apply these teachings across diverse organizational, clinical, educational, judicial, and community settings.
Why This Program Matters
“The wound is not the trauma event; the wound is the disconnection. When we bring the Sacred Wound into circle, we are not reopening trauma. We are restoring relationship.”
— Sacred Wound Framework™ (Olson, 2025)
In Chiricahua teachings, fire is never just fire. It is spirit, relationship, responsibility, and presence. When fire is tended well, it gives warmth, light, and gathering power. When fire is neglected or scattered, it can burn or go cold. The same is true for the people who carry the healing work of Indigenous communities.
For over five hundred years, colonization has disrupted the kinship systems, ceremonial practices, languages, and land connections that kept Indigenous peoples in balance. The impacts of this disruption, including historical trauma, intergenerational grief, ambiguous loss, lateral violence, and the sorrow felt in our bodies from Mother Earth herself, are not relics of the past. They are a living process, carried in the nervous system, in the blood memory (epigenome), in family patterns, and, often, in the very systems designed to help.
This program exists because most trauma training was built on Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich, Democratic (WEIRD) frameworks that do not account for Indigenous worldviews, collective experience, or the sophisticated healing technologies our ancestors practiced for millennia. Before polyvagal theory, we had ceremony. Before narrative therapy, we had storywork. Before somatic experiencing, we had dance, shaking, and sweating. This program reclaims that legacy.
What Makes This Program Different
Healing-Centered, Not Deficit-Driven: Guided by Dr. Ginwright’s shift from trauma-informed to healing-centered engagement, this program centers culture, spirituality, civic action, traditional values, and collective healing. We focus on restoring balance through the path of beauty (intin hozhonii) rather than cataloging wounds.
Two-Row Medicine Approach™: Inspired by the Haudenosaunee Gaswendah (Two Row Wampum Belt Treaty), and Dr. Karen Hill’s description of how this applies to contemporary systems, Indigenous knowledge systems and western trauma science travel side by side as sovereign, equally legitimate paths. Neither vessel steers the other, and both are accessible to Indigenous peoples seeking help.
Embodied and Experiential: This is not a lecture series. Each session includes talking circles, somatic practices, breathwork, creative expression, storywork, land-based connection, and embodied activities that engage body, heart, mind, and spirit—the four directions of the Medicine Wheel of Regulation™.
Rooted in Chiricahua Apache Teachings: The Fire Alliance™, Sacred Wound Framework™, and core teachings draw from Chiricahua Apache lifeways, complemented by Quero Apache contemplative traditions such as doohwaa-gon’ch’aasa (entering the silence) and the understanding that “sacred ground is anywhere beneath your feet.”
Community-Centered: Healing happens in relationship. Cohort members form a circle of kinship—a fire alliance—that carries the medicine of shared learning, mutual witnessing, and collective accountability beyond the six months.
Built on Indigenous Science: Neurodecolonization research confirms what our ancestors knew: that traditional practices like dancing, drumming, complex ceremonial movement, storytelling, and mindfulness create real molecular changes: lengthening telomeres, restoring brain matter, and strengthening the immune system. Western science is running to catch up.
Pedagogical Foundation
This program is rooted in a pedagogical philosophy that honors Indigenous epistemology; ways of knowing that are relational, embodied, storied, circular, and land based. The Quero Apache teachthat knowledge enters through relationship with All That Is; the Chiricahua Apache teach that fire, tended in community, is the original technology of regulation and belonging.
Guiding Principles
“Before polyvagal theory, we had ceremony. Before parts therapy, we had song. Before somatic experiencing, we had dance. We are reclaiming what was always ours.” (Olson, 2025).
This program is guided by six core principles that honor Indigenous knowledge systems while integrating contemporary science:
1. Nīk’eh — Healing Is Relational
Everything in this program—the circle, storywork, leadership, trauma understanding, and repair, flows through relationship. In Chiricahua, and most Indigenous thought, no person exists apart from their web of relations: human, more-than-human, ancestral, and yet-to-come.
2. Doohwaa-gon’ch’aasa — Ceremony Is the Oldest Form of Regulation
The Quero Apache Snake Clan tlish diyan practice of entering the silence (a way of combining meditation, breathwork, and prayer) reminds us that Indigenous peoples carried sophisticated regulation technologies long before western science named them. This program reintroduces ceremony-informed regulation as the foundation for trauma healing.
3. Ish’kē’nā Biyátí — The Medicine Lives Between Us
The Sacred Wound Framework™ grounds the understanding that trauma is not an individual pathology; it is a disruption in the relational field. Healing, therefore, is the restoration of relationship, not the removal of symptoms. As our Elders teach: the wound carries both the grief and the medicine.
4. Kuu’ — Fire Is Relational Leadership
In Chiricahua teachings, fire is spirit, relationship, responsibility, and presence. Leadership is a collective practice guided by the Fire Alliance™ model, tending the fires of self, story, community, and collective future. When fire is tended well, the circle is warm. When it is neglected, the people grow cold.
5. Ts’án Bik’ehgo — Healing Must Serve the Next Generations
Every teaching looks forward to the “faces yet to come,” grounded in Seven-Generation thinking. The Chiricahua understanding is that what we do here ripples forward; our healing becomes their inheritance, just as our ancestors’ survival became ours.
6. Gaswendah — Two Ways of Knowing Walk Side by Side
Named for the Haudenosaunee Two Row Wampum Belt, the Two-Row Medicine Approach upholds the sovereignty of Indigenous medicineways while thoughtfully integrating useful western frameworks. As Professor Maya Chacaby (Anishinaabe) teaches: “You could come and visit my canoe, but while you were visiting my canoe, you would never rip it apart and force your rules on me.”
CHOOSE YOUR PRICE POINT: We ask that your choose your own price point for this course. There are six options. We do not police or gate-keep the options, but ask that you responsibly and respectfully choose the option that best fits your ability to pay. The $595, $695 and $795 options are for Tribal Members and those who identify as Indigenous. The $1095, $1195 and $1295 options are for those who identify as allies and those working in Tribal programs. We also offer at least three work/trade scholarships for Tribal Members and Indigenous participants. Please contact us to discuss this option and/or see if this option is still available.
You can read more about our ethical pricing structure on our Terms Page.
The Indigenous Facilitator Certificate I: The Sacred Container is a six-month, cohort-based certificate program designed and led exclusively by Indigenous professionals. Offered through Juniper & Pine Consulting, LLC, it is the foundational credential in the Mastering the Sacred Art of Facilitation pathway, a comprehensive training system that positions Indigenous healing-centered facilitation as a distinct and sophisticated professional practice.
Participants meet virtually one full day each month across six consecutive months, moving together through a carefully sequenced arc that braids Indigenous knowledge systems, polyvagal neuroscience, relational accountability, healing-centered design, and professional facilitation craft. Each month maps to one of the six core competencies of the International Association of Facilitators (IAF), while grounding every competency in Indigenous wisdom traditions, neurochemical awareness, and the understanding that facilitation is sacred, relational, and embodied work.
We will meet the third Friday of each month, from 7:00 am-2:00 pm PACIFIC STANDARD TIME starting Friday, September 18, 2026 and ending Friday, January 15, 2027.
Where mainstream facilitation training centers on methods, tools, and meeting management, this program centers the facilitator as the instrument. This is the understanding that your regulation, your groundedness, your cultural identity, and your integrity are the foundation of every process you hold. Participants leave not merely with techniques but with a transformed understanding of who they are as facilitators and what their communities need them to become.
Certificate I serves as the entry credential for the full Juniper & Pine professional development pathway and is a required core course for the Indigenous Healing-Centered Regulation Practitioner Certification.
Why This Program Matters
“The person holding the circle must be well. The person carrying medicine must first be in right relationship with their own healing. This has always been the teaching.”
— Foundational Teaching, Certificate I
Indigenous communities are in urgent need of skilled facilitators who can hold space for the complex work of healing, planning, and governance that sovereignty demands. Strategic planning sessions, community healing circles, organizational development, family group conferencing, youth program design, Elder councils, and restorative justice gatherings all require facilitation skills. The settings are diverse, but they share a common requirement: someone who can create a container that is safe enough for truth, structured enough for progress, and grounded enough in cultural knowledge to honor the people in the room.
Yet the vast majority of facilitation training available today was designed within western, corporate frameworks that do not account for Indigenous worldviews, relational values, or the neurobiological realities of working within communities carrying historical and intergenerational trauma. These trainings teach participants to manage agendas but not to read nervous systems. They teach process design but not energetic container creation. They teach conflict management but not co-regulation. They teach neutrality but not cultural humility.
This program exists because Indigenous communities deserve facilitators who understand that space is medicine, that the facilitator’s own regulation is the first intervention, that talking circles are not merely a participation structure but a form of ceremony, and that every gathered group carries ancestral wisdom that does not need to be extracted but honored.
What Makes This Program Different
• Healing-Centered, Not Technique-Driven: Guided by the understanding that facilitation is sacred work, this program centers the facilitator’s own healing, regulation, and cultural groundedness as the foundation of professional practice. Techniques are taught within the context of embodied, relational, healing-centered facilitation, never as standalone tools.
• Two-Row Medicine Approach™: Inspired by the Haudenosaunee Two Row Wampum Belt Treaty, and the words of Dr. Karen Hill, is the idea that Indigenous knowledge systems and western facilitation science travel side by side as sovereign, equally legitimate paths. Participants learn to walk between both knowledge systems with integrity, knowing when to draw from each and when to stand in the relational river between them.
• IAF Competency-Mapped with Indigenous Grounding: Each month maps to one of the six IAF core facilitator competencies (A–F), creating a credentialing pathway recognized by the international facilitation profession. But every competency is taught through an Indigenous lens first; western frameworks serve as supporting evidence, not as the primary frame.
• Embodied and Experiential: This is not a lecture series. Each session includes talking circles, somatic practices, breathwork, neurochemical strategies, role play, skill-building labs, and embodied activities that engage body, heart, mind, and spirit—the four directions of wholistic learning.
• Neurochemical Awareness Throughout: Every segment of every session is designed with explicit attention to the neurochemistry of the room, including oxytocin for bonding, cortisol management for safety, dopamine for engagement, and serotonin for belonging. Participants learn not only what to facilitate but what is happening in the nervous systems of the people they serve.
• Community-Centered: Learning happens in cohort; a circle of kinship that carries the medicine of shared learning, mutual witnessing, and collective accountability. Practice pods of 3–4 participants meet between sessions for peer learning and feedback, building the relational infrastructure that sustains practice long after the program ends.
• Built on Indigenous Science: Neurodecolonization research (Yellow Bird, 2013) confirms what our ancestors knew: that traditional contemplative practices create real neurobiological change, strengthening the prefrontal cortex, reducing amygdala reactivity, and restoring the brain’s capacity for regulation and presence. Western science is running to catch up.
CHOOSE YOUR PRICE POINT: We ask that your choose your own price point for this course. There are six options. We do not police or gate-keep the options, but ask that you responsibly and respectfully choose the option that best fits your ability to pay. The $595, $695 and $795 options are for Tribal Members and those who identify as Indigenous. The $1095, $1195 and $1295 options are for those who identify as allies and those working in Tribal programs. We also offer at least three work/trade scholarships for Tribal Members and Indigenous participants. Please contact us to discuss this option and/or see if this option is still available.
You can read more about our ethical pricing structure on our Terms Page.
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A Note on All Our Pathways
Juniper & Pine Consulting, LLC certification programs are 100% Indigenous-led and grounded in the principle that Indigenous knowledge leads, and western science walks alongside. Our programs are not simply educational experiences. They are healing journeys, professional transformations, and sacred commitments to the communities we serve.
We are honored to walk these paths with you.
To learn more about any of our certification programs, schedule a complimentary consultation, or inquire about group and organizational enrollment, please contact us.
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